PANAJI: Minister of Transportation Mauvin Godinho said on Thursday that the state government was open to all application-based taxi services, including Ola and Uber.
His statement came after the taxi operator suggested that they would rather operate from AppBased aggregator services instead of using digital meters.
Godinho said that if the taxi operator wants a taxi aggregator then they should not oppose Ola and Uber refer to the new demand from the taxi operator in the state, he said, let the taxi operator stand.
“They are confused.
They don’t know what they want and they are perverted,” Godinho said.
The Minister of Transportation said that whatever decision that the state government had taken towards the court.
“I can’t change even if I want.
Let them go to court and notify the court that they will function from application-based services.
They have been going to court three times, let them go the fourth time,” he said.
The Minister of Transport added that he had told the taxi operator that the digital meter was also a type of digitization and that he had notified the National Informatics Center (NIC) to add application features to digital meters “when we had asked them to do it with the application-based service, Those (taxi operators) say they will never receive the application, “Godinho said.
Questioning why the taxi operator opposed Ola and Uber if they want an application-based aggregator service, Godinho said, “They (Ola and Uber) are also application-based services and if they come to the state, our people will only join them.
They will not bring taxis from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru.
I have one thing to be suggested.
Let’s make it a free market, like other countries.
Let other application-based services come to the country.
“Asked whether it was possible to provide meters Digital taxis free instead of returning money later, said Godinho, “every dynamic situation.
We always reach them.
At this time people install meters in large quantities.
Should we punish these people who follow the rules and regulations and install meters.
We must Think about this.
“BJP will not be able to accommodate Congress leaders: react to the speculation of bebera Pa Senior Congress leader who joined BJP, Minister of Transportation Mauvin Godinho said that they did not want to join again.
He said, “The existing leaders do not have space, where we will accommodate newcomers.” Reacting to criticism of his statement that Porvorim must be replaced by Panaji’s new name, Godinho says everyone has the freedom to express their views and if people do not want to rename the place, so it will happen.
“As I said, the party is the highest.
I will go with anything that decided by the party.
I have declared myself, is there something wrong.
Because the election is close, people connect the motives,” he said.